Why Changing Your LinkedIn Password Is Not Enough
The news is spreading today that LinkedIn’s database was hacked, and millions of users accounts have been compromised. I keep hearing over and over again to “change your password.” That’s smart. I changed mine this morning. Something that people aren’t saying though is that your other social networking accounts could be at risk as well […]
Read more...Please Do Twitter a Favor and Join SocialToo
Today we announced on the SocialToo blog that we’ve enabled our phishing protection for all 60,000+ SocialToo users (and many, many more to come). This project means a lot to me, as it means the more people that use it, the fewer phishing DMs will be received, links won’t be clicked, passwords won’t be shared, […]
Read more...Potential FriendFeed Hole Allows Users to Embed Web Bugs
I have discovered a feature (or perhaps vulnerability?) of FriendFeed that, intended or not, could enable marketers to track every single view of their RSS posts to FriendFeed. The feature revolves around the ability to embed images, via a subset of RSS called MediaRSS, into your RSS feed. If your RSS is MediaRSS formatted, FriendFeed […]
Read more...Make the Most of Facebook With Fox 13’s New Series
A few weeks back I was interviewed by our Local Fox station, Fox 13 KSTU about Facebook. I was interviewed by Arikka Von, Katy Carlyle, Nicole Hunter, and Nineveh Dinha about topics such as why you should join Facebook, Facebook Privacy, Security, and even Strategy on Facebook. The series ran all last week (now all […]
Read more...Is Facebook Testing Popups?
Today I was visiting a friend’s Facebook Group, when out of nowhere a popup appeared, asking me to take a survey. Being on a Mac, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t spyware or a virus. I checked the other sites I was on and none seemed to be the type to do this, and Facebook was […]
Read more...The First Twitter Worm Surfaces – Plain Passwords to Blame?
Back in March, I reported the occurance of a new worm on Facebook, which surfaced due to a phishing scam, and took over users’ profiles. It would appear that a similar scam is surfacing on Twitter as we speak. The scam comes in the form of a direct message to a user’s followers, stating “hey! […]
Read more...Could Pandora be Leaking User E-mail Addresses to 3rd Parties?
UPDATE: See the comments below. Pandora’s CTO responded with the following explanation – while I haven’t shared much, I can see it being a spyware issue of someone I’ve shared having spyware on their computer – he has a good point. “Hi there, I’m the CTO over at Pandora. Saw a link to this post […]
Read more...Facebook Puts on Its Chain Mail
With all the recent talk of spam and viruses lately it appears Facebook has truly hit mainstream. You know when the spammers have hit there is truly value in a service. Today I noticed a new trend on Facebook, previously only known to the likes of Snail Mail and E-mail itself, the chain letter. It […]
Read more...Secret Crush Worm Resurfaces
TechCrunch and several other publications recently blogged about new worms surfacing that target Facebook through various means. Some are sent via e-mail with links to malicious videos, while others link directly to phishing sites that look just like Facebook and take the username and password of those thinking they are logging into Facebook. I’ve noticed […]
Read more...The iPhone Needs Privacy Controls
The iPhone seems to have created a huge security and privacy problem recently that I think many more people should be watching. By launching a developer platform and SDK, Apple has essentially created one of the largest social network platforms in existence, bringing even more powerful and personal data than ever before to the developer. […]
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